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It's part drama, part documentary (actors reading out loud survivors' accounts). I couldn't finish hearing about the atrocities, especially considering they were all true, unlike the above-mentioned horror films.

Disagree. I thought they developed the characters quickly enough such that I cared when they died. It's basically the plot of The Dirty Dozen. One of my favorite sci-fi films is the feature length "Serenity" based on the Firefly series. I watched the movie first (without knowing the characters) before I saw the series, but once they were in peril, the stakes were higher just knowing any or all of the characters could die. I thought Rogue One had the same level of high dramatic tension that adds to what is a simple heist story.

I don't know how fast food places in NYC survive, unless they are entirely patronized by tourists. Why go to McDonald's when for about $5, you can get delicious street meat, $2 for a slice, or for $10, get a pound of salad at a corner deli. I would have put down Shake Shack or sweetgreen if they qualified. The last time I had actual fast food was when I drove down to State College in 2010, and I couldn't find anything else along the highway. The food was as disappointing as the game, and the bad memories of both lingered longer than you would have wanted.

My mom always poured the milk first and put it away before I even came out for breakfast. I hated it, because the cereal would float on top rather than absorb the milk, which made some of the rougher cereal (Apple Jacks, Cheerios) impossible to eat without scraping off the roof of my mouth. But she's an immigrant, so she didn't know any better.

18 U.S.C. § 227 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 227. Wrongfully influencing a private entity's employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch

Whoever, being a covered government person, with the intent to influence, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity-- takes or withholds, or offers or threatens to take or withhold, an official act, or influences, or offers or threatens to influence, the official act of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

In this section, the term “covered government person” means--a Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress; an employee of either House of Congress; or the President, Vice President, an employee of the United States Postal Service or the Postal Regulatory Commission, or any other executive branch employee (as such term is defined under section 2105 of title 5, United States Code ).

Me too, but not at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, but in Chicago, when he was making a tour of the U.S. I was selected (as a high school student) to meet him in a greeting line, and we were given the protocol on addressing a royal (don't speak first, but respond if he asks you a question, etc.). He drove up in a motorcade of Jaguars. This was before we all knew the truth about Princess Di, so I was impressed.

I think it's more that he wasn't comfortable enough in an AD role to accept the job on a long-term basis, but clearly he (like a lot of retired businessmen) enjoyed the idea of stepping in on a short-term basis to turn something around.

I wanted to link to this article which uses the Michigan experience as an argument in favor of hiring Hackett:

Hilarious. It never occurred to me that other fields would see that as positive traits (excepting the not doing his job part). Well, he missed his calling then, but it also explains why I have an antipathy towards people in sales.

Back when I used to work at a large law firm, we would often staff large litigations with temporary attorneys who conducted document review. It was a dead-end job, and everyone involved knew it. There was one guy who didn't get the memo. He would come into work everyday wearing a suit & tie and freshly-polished shoes to sit in a caseroom shared with a dozen other people who were in business casual with their headphones on. If any associate or partner went into the caseroom to give an update about the case or to tell people to work faster, he would introduce himself and try to strike up a conversation. If anyone had a personal conversation in the room, he would perk up and listen in. He got access to the firm's calendar of events and started attending information meetings between the firm and potential clients, introducing himself to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies as if he was a partner at the firm. He worked there for about 4 weeks before we noticed that he had not coded a single document. One of the attorneys went down to investigate after business hours and found that he kept an accordion file under his desk that had a dossier on every single person that he ever met, including dates & times and frequency that he had met them, what they discussed, etc. It was so creepy that HR decided to fire him, but they waited until 5 pm on Friday (in case he thought about coming back and shooting us), and he was escorted from the building by security and not allowed to return to his desk to pick up his dossier. I'm sure he was more socially-awkward than he was dangerous, but there's a guy like that out there who's allowed to practice law.

This is a false fact. I don't care what your political viewpoint is, but you should arm yourself with actual facts if you want credibility. In 2011, 2 Iraqis were arrested for plotting an attack, and as a result, Obama ordered closer vetting of refugees from Iraq; there was no actual ban. In 2017, in response to absolutely nothing, a blanket ban was imposed on all people originating from 7 countries, no matter their legal status, leaving American Green Card holders stranded overseas, as well as refugees who had already passed the 1-2 year vetting process. If you can't tell the difference between the two, then your ideology has blinded you.

I downloaded the last 3 podcasts from the subscription page, because they didn't automatically load. I couldn't find them in my queue until I scrolled all the way down and discovered that they were being treated as "oldest" instead of "newest" because they had a date/time stamp of December 31, 2000 at 7:00 pm. This may be why they don't automatically download (because they're not "new"), or even after they are downloaded, cannot be located (especially if you have a long queue). I'm hoping that if you fix the time/date stamp, this will fix the problem. FYI, I use the "My Podcasts" app for iPhone.